Scepticism also persists towards oil producer Angola where inflation remains at perilously high levels amid currency depreciation and the restructuring at the state oil company Sonangol under the leadership of the former First Daughter Isabel dos Santos is yet to convince investors (AC Vol 58 No 20 New man takes it slow)...

It was even suggested that a weak minister had been picked deliberately so that Isabel dos Santos could continue running Sonangol unsupervised (AC Vol 57 No 15 Dos Santos takes stock shares and AC Vol 57 No 12 The Sonangol is you)...

extravaganza paid for by the government and sponsored by the Kero supermarket chain which is co-owned by Vice-President Manuel Vicente and Isabel dos Santos's Unitel used the latest lighting water features temporary structures and state of the art projection equipment from Britain and Portugal...

Recently a respected general Manuel Mendes de Carvalho Pacavira 'Paka' expressed out loud what could never previously be said in public when he threatened to put presidential daughter Isabel dos Santos in prison and openly called her father corrupt in a July interview with the Voice of America's Portuguese service...